Throwback Thursday #5 | Watch 'Every Object Tells a Story: Two Art Projects at the Goa Chitra Museum' online | Presentations by Lina Vincent and Aparajita Bhasin

In the last session under the series Throwback Thursdays with IFA, we brought together presentations by Lina Vincent, a cultural practitioner and Aparajita Bhasin, an art historian and project manager at a design and innovation consultancy in Goa. The session was moderated by Suman Gopinath, Senior Programme Officer, Archives and Museums Programme, IFA. They were also joined by Krishnan Ghosh and Divesh who were part of the project at the Goa Chitra Museum.

Lina and Aparajita received fellowships from IFA to work with the Goa Chitra Museum, Goa, under the Archival & Museum Fellowship programme that was made possible with support from Tata Trusts. 

Do watch their presentations and hear them speak about their experiences of working with the museum collection. 

For over a year, Lina and Aparajita engaged with the Goa Chitra museum and worked with objects that they selected from the collection. Lina used 15 iconic objects and made visible their many-layered stories through a variety of formats. The stories unravelled the human histories around them, as well as their aesthetic, historic and contemporary significance. While Lina’s project concentrated on the materiality of hand-crafted objects, Aparajita digitally documented selected objects to create 3D models using cutting edge immersive mediums like Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR). Her interventions focused on emerging new media tools that could potentially enhance the interaction between the visitor/viewer and create possibilities for knowledge and heritage to be preserved and documented for posterity. Both Lina and Aparajita curated a series of events during their fellowship period to bring together a varied audience to engage with the museum collection.

(All Throwback Thursdays with IFA are available on our YouTube Channel. Click here to watch other sessions of the series.)